Do the right thing: studies in limited rationality
Do the right thing: studies in limited rationality
A layered architecture for office delivery robots
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: adaptive intelligent agents
Information and Organizations
Agent-Based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Complex goal criteria and its application in design-to-criteria scheduling
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
The Use of Models - Making MABS More Informative
MABS '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation-Revised and Additional Papers
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Since voluntary organizational decisions are most likely made by self-interested parties, organizational decisions in an economic market are subject to explanation by (at least) two different fields of study: organizational theory and microeconomics. This paper describes initial work on economic modeling, including the modeling of voluntary organizational contracts, of a set of business entities set in the market context of the food court at an upscale suburban mall, the Virtual Food Court. DECAF is an multi-agent toolkit that provides this effort with a GUI to easily establish the control mechanisms needed to express exchanges between participants and the operatingsy stem features to perform the message sendinga nd receivingtha t models the actual transactions. DECAF provides high-level language support and pre-built middle-agents for buildingm ulti-agent systems. This approach helps researchers or students get to the "interesting" parts of a simulation more quickly.